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Bombay (BFI Modern Classics)
Lalitha Gopalan
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Description for Bombay (BFI Modern Classics)
Paperback. This is a fascinating account of a landmark in recent Indian cinema. Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 88 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 176.
A Landmark in recent Indian cinema, by acclaimed director Mani Ratnam. In January 1993 sectarian rioting left 2,000 Hindus and Muslims dead in Bombay. Only two years later Mani Ratnam's audacious Tamil film Bombay (1995) used these events as a backdrop to a love story between a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl. Bombay was condemned by Muslim critics for misrepresentation and it was embroiled in censorship controversies. These served only to heighten interest and the film ran to packed houses in India and abroad. Lalitha Gopolan shows how Bombay struggles to find a narrative that can reconcile communal differences. ... Read more
A Landmark in recent Indian cinema, by acclaimed director Mani Ratnam. In January 1993 sectarian rioting left 2,000 Hindus and Muslims dead in Bombay. Only two years later Mani Ratnam's audacious Tamil film Bombay (1995) used these events as a backdrop to a love story between a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl. Bombay was condemned by Muslim critics for misrepresentation and it was embroiled in censorship controversies. These served only to heighten interest and the film ran to packed houses in India and abroad. Lalitha Gopolan shows how Bombay struggles to find a narrative that can reconcile communal differences. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
British Film Institute
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
BFI Film Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780851709567
SKU
V9780851709567
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About Lalitha Gopalan
Lalitha Gopalan teaches Film Studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of Cinema of Interruptions: Action Genres in Contemporary Indian Cinema (BFI, 2002).
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